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Chicago Tribune Dning Saff July 6, 2009 Restaurants, let’s not forget, are in the business of selling you food (emphasis on the word “selling.”) All too often, restaurateurs rely on tired menu cliches that they believe make...
SWEET POTATO NUTRITION Sweet Potato Ranks Number One In Nutrition According to nutritionists at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), the single most important dietary change for most people, including children, would be to replace...
There’s an old, old man who works for my husband. This bloke has to keep working at his age because his wife liked being pregnant and carried on having babies until well into her forties. As a result, Oom Chris still has some children to...
I find this man very funny: “A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. When you put on a hat you are surrendering to the same urge that makes children wear...
Are we to see the death of printed advertising? Cindy Taylor We’re besieged by reports of dwindling figures and the predictions that the onset of the Digital Age will certainly ensure the slow death of print. If we look at reading material...
I thought I’d repost something about the little pink mouse in the photo on my previous post. First posted on 24.com 25 October 2008 When Original Bunn was about six months old, Old Spouse’s ex-wife (The HEX) took Che, his then 8 year-old...
Hey there BLABLA bloggers. I just got our gift pack from Darrin over at You Make Joburg Great. It was filled with T-Shirts, bumper stickers and cardboard signs for us. So if any of the bloggers would like some let me know and we can figure out...
Edited for Greg, who asked … A repost, first published on my Original Cin blog in 2008. From the age of fourteen, Old Spouse and his friends, Tuffy and Iggy Pop, have been going to Smitswinkelbaai as often as they could. As teenagers, they...
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
I’m getting quite impossible to live with, the excitement of the wedding is just too much for me! Anyway, being a Boksburg wedding and all, I know my outfit will have to be the last word in elegance. I’ve started on my hat, don’t...
Cindy does. A little. Now and then. If you’d like to help her out by making a few suggestions on the things she could write about, let her know here please: Sorry, but the Skribit widget only works on browsers with JavaScript support....
When I was fifteen, I wanted to be a man of few words, to be small and muscular with fine bones, to play slide guitar like Elmor James. I wanted to be fearless. I am thirty seven. The page is white and cool to touch. My hands smell...
She sits on the pavement every morning watching cars for fifty-cent tips, or a loose cigarette. By lunchtime, usually, the fifty cent handouts have added up to enough to buy her a bottle of something strong enough to make her belligerently...
“Garrison Keillor once wrote that, of all the sensory depravations, the deprivation of touch is the most severe”. I’ve just finished reading an unlikely book for my reading tastes. It was so strongly recommended by my librarian friend...
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